Team the iPad with Apple Pencil and you’ll be able to use Scribble in iPadOS 14 for handwritten notes.
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Features 10.2–inch Retina display, A12 Bionic chip, 32GB or 128GB of storage, Wi–Fi only or Wi–Fi + cellular connectivity
While it’s not been given the radical overhaul enjoyed by its iPad Air sibling, there’s still enough special sauce in this entry–level iPad to make it worth the upgrade. Chief among these is the six–core A12 Bionic chip from the iPhone 11, which also includes a second–gen Neural Engine for improved machine learning, photo and video editing, and Augmented Reality (AR). Apple says the A12 Bionic boosts iPad performance by 40% over the previous generation, with 2x graphics performance — more on this later.
As before, the eighth–gen iPad is available in Wi–Fi only or Wi–Fi + cellular connectivity options. Plus you can choose between either 32GB or 128GB of storage. The 32GB Wi–Fi– only model costs $329; the 128GB Wi–Fi–only model is $429. Adding cellular connectivity adds $130 to the price of each model, making the 32GB Wi–Fi + cellular iPad $459 and the 128GB Wi–Fi + cellular iPad $559.
Outwardly, the eighth–gen iPad hasn’t changed much — it retains the 10.2–inch Retina display from last year’s update, with a screen resolution of 2160x1620 pixels and 500 nits brightness. It also looks more dated now — the thick bezels around the edge of the display along with the rounded edges of the iPad itself contrast strongly with the slimmer bezels and squared–off sides of the new fourth–gen iPad Air and iPad Pro.
This story is from the December 2020 edition of Mac Life.
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